Ghostrunners - 139 - The Outside of the Oven Door

Episode Date: January 3, 2022

It's been three weeks since Jake and Brad recorded an episode together and there's plenty to talk about. Brad did his first ever paid comedy gig, Jake went skiing with the I'm Down Boyz, and both of them have had some major realizations in their lives. Everything seasoning... WHO KNEW?!? Buy a ticket for F12 and get Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu  Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3cQSPnw  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P  Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2022. How are we doing Jake? Oh, just fine, Brad. Welcome to the next year of your life. I was just thinking about goals and we were talking right before this about how we decided that we want to have a word for our podcast, a word, a theme. Yeah. So we've never done it. It's time. It's long overdue. We've always said like, Hey, we need to establish goals specifically like a word theme. Yeah. Maybe like a word cloud of some sort where we have one thing in the middle we have all these things around it uh so we're trying to figure it out now um one thing that i suggested really quickly off the top was glow glow glow yeah yeah it could either be a verb a noun like that person's got some glow to them i think g-lO-A. That way it's also an anagram of goal.

Oh, I like that. Oh, my goal? Glow. My glow. Glow up? No. Glow up. Glow up.

I like that. My word could be sweater because yours looks really good. Thank you. I think that could be a word for the podcast. Also, I am a sweater. Like I have too many layers on down here. And so I am just like a sweater. Yeah.

It needs to have a double meaning somehow. And I'm trying to work out more. So I want to be a sweater. I hope. And so I am just like a sweater. Yeah, it needs to have a double meaning somehow. And I'm trying to work out more. So I want to be a sweater. I hope so. Trying to be more of a sweater. So I'm going to have a glow up while being a sweater. Okay, glow sweater. This is our year.

Glow sweater podcast. Roll the theme music. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down. With some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet. Cause it's the Ghost Rubs Podcast.

Every Monday morning we take you around the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. It is funny seeing people's like, you know know they have a word for their year or even just the the new year's captions have been just every year you see the same stuff it's like 2021 glad i don't have to see you anymore what is with the pet peeve yeah right what's with the negativity about a full year yeah every year Like we'll never miss you. Like 2020 thought it couldn't get worse than this. I was wrong. I, I, that fired me up, dude. Yeah. Like, it's just like, Oh, like, is it really that bad? Are we really, are we really

having that hard of a time? And you speak so universally, like, I think we can all agree. 2021 was the worst. Really? I mean, I had some fun. I went to Hawaii. I got to see Table Rock Lake. Yeah. Multiple times. That's a good year. I went swimming.

Yeah. I went swimming. I like swimming. Yeah. Minimal sunburn this year. Minimal burns. SPF 50 was good to me. Yeah.

It was a good year. Aches and pains were down. Yeah. Oh, yeah. For year 30, I thought maybe it'd be worse. You get a nice bed. It helps. Not too bad. too bad sweet nectar yeah you see that so you see that and then you just see uh more just typical captions than normal like there's nothing that brings together uh groupthink like new year's when it comes to instagram captions like maybe fourth

of july you see some stuff like bombs away to this guy you know or just like you're talking about people doing like pun punny just like the so such predictable captions on new year's eve yeah yeah like i played a game with some people this week and where it was just like i'm going to show you a picture everyone tried to guess the caption and we had pretty good success rate like guessing their caption that's a pretty fun game i think any day of the week but you but the success rate is so high high of just like 2021 wasn't all bad. Ended up with this girl. Here's what we should do.

We should play a game where it's like we look at a picture and you write down the real caption. And then everyone else writes down like the fake caption. And everyone tries to guess what it actually is. This is like the Jackbox TV game Fibbage. Yes. But we Instagram Fibbage. Yes. We called it Balderdash back in the day.

It was like, what's this word mean? And then you like everyone tried to guess. we called it balderdash back in the day ah it was like what's this word mean and then you like everyone tried to guess that's what balderdash is at least that's what my family did that was our version so i like that back in the day i played a game with a guy we actually made a video out of it this idea i had where i would tell you an instagram caption and then in real life you have to go take a picture of what you think the caption was captioning. But is it a real caption? Yeah. It's like, I saw this on Instagram today. It says, snuggled up to this cutie.

Only thing I'm missing. You know, something that kind of gives some clues. Like a little bit specific, but kind of vague too. Yeah. Oh, that's pretty fun. And then you go take the picture. It was with. Wait, yeah.

I watched this. Cody Rochester. Yeah. I watched that like kind of recently. Like I have no idea. I went through it. I need to delete this video. I went through it like kind of recently. Like I have no idea. I need to delete this video. I went down to like a Jake Triplett rabbit hole or something. I'm embarrassed just thinking about that.

It was, you were so raw. Like you were just like, Oh yeah. It was like 12 minutes long. Like it was so long. No energy. Probably way too long of a video.

Yeah. It was great. It was, it was, it was for what it was. It was fun. I do. Speaking of that,

that's so funny that I watched that and you brought that up. And recently, speaking of that, um, juggling got brought up recently. And one thing I don't talk about too often is how, if you Google or even YouTube, how to juggle a video of me comes up. It is the top result. What? Once a month, some random person in my life will text me. No, no, not that one.

Once a month. Josh and I back in the day made a video because we thought it'd be a good idea. I guess clearly it is. Josh is raking in the money from it. I'm not seeing it. But I'm just like how to juggle. That's just a very Google-able thing. Yeah.

And so we just made one. I'm sure our current subscribers were like, this is so dumb. This is so boring. Yeah. But it did well. Otherwise. Anyway, so we just made a video called how to juggle. And so did people like contact you? It's got millions and millions of views. So it's like the top result boring. Yeah. But it did well. Otherwise. Anyway, so we just made a video called how to juggle. And so did people like contact you?

It's got millions and millions of views. So it's like the top result now. Dang. But I'm just like this, just whatever, 27 year old YouTuber at the time who shouldn't be in this video. I'm not the juggler. Why was it even in this video? And so all the time people were like, I just Googled how to juggle. Why am I looking at your face right now?

So I get that all the time, but I've never talked about the podcast. It's so cringy. Cause I don't want you. I don't even know what's in the video video i'm just embarrassed of what might be in the video because it's me you don't want to watch in the midst of like the height of my youtube height and i was probably not what i am now you refuse to watch it like you i would not want to i'm sure it's fine it's not like i was saying anything crazy i'm just but but you're just different like yeah it was just different right it was a different era so you're probably wearing like your n1 shorts and like oh yeah definitely like maroon on red you know or probably was like my outfit jake used to have this uh hat

that he wore all the time that said big chill 92 oh there's a great chance i was wearing the hat that said yeah big chill 92 what happened to the hat i haven't seen it in a while okay i don't know it's probably like in the trunk of the camry somewhere. You've been on a few moves since then. Yeah. Anyway, didn't mean to talk about any of that stuff. No, I'm so glad you brought up the thing about 2021 was such a hard, because I had that same thought. I was like, no, like, I'm sorry if you had a tough year, but surely like you got to count

your blessings here. Redeemable qualities about everything. Yeah. There's no way there's 365 bad days this year. Yeah. sure i had some hard times but like we all did you know but whatever anyway i'm glad coming off of 2020 it's like hey quite a bit better yeah we can we can yeah we've seen worse here um we know how bad it can be but no well we are in your new studio yes our new studio your new house. Yeah. My first time here. The sweater kind of matches the walls.

Yes, it's Johnson County Beige. It's a new studio, but it's kind of a nude studio. Kind of a flesh-toned wall, flesh-toned sweater. Yep. It's the nude studio. Yep. Yeah, it's not like decorated or anything yet. We've kind of...

We'll get there. Given some ideas to Isaac. He's got about 30 things on his plate right now, as do each of us. So we'll see. We might be like this for a while. We might be like this for a while, but we want to make this nice. I think we'll probably be here a while. So I was, I was saying though, it's so nice that we have carpet here, you know, cause it's already so much quieter in here. We used to, we used to like, like the first studio that we had in Jake's basement two times ago,

we literally found this rug, I think from Greg, your roommate, Greg may have been hopefully, but it was just, it was white, but it was more of a nude color as well just because something got, you know, spilled all over it and it was nasty, but we use that baby and it dampened it, but it's not as nice as this carpet here. This feels like it was made for a podcast studio. Like this is a weird shape for a bedroom.

I guess it was supposed to be an office or something, but right. It's nice. It's a very odd shape like we're here this is the longest we've ever gone between court recording podcast episodes Oh easily yeah almost three weeks yeah so we got a lot to talk about maybe right at three weeks actually right yeah we yeah yeah it's been a while I think the first thing I want to know a lot of the ghosties probably know you did your first paid comedy gig stand-up comedy gig, Stanbury, Missouri. I'm a professional comedian now, baby. How did it go?

All I, here's what I know. Okay. Is Alex Dimchik and you and I were putting a group chat and you said the sentence, humble beginnings. So that's all I have to go off of. Okay. Okay. So yeah, I know that Aaron Dimchik, Alex's wife does listen to the podcast.

So I'm going to be as truthful as possible. And, but Aaron, I want you to fact check me with Alex. Make sure that he would agree with all these things. So, uh, first and foremost, uh, I came in to your house earlier and I noticed that in your backyard, you have some fence down in your backyard and you're like, yeah, apparently there was, I love that this is going to connect to your comedy performance. You're like, apparently there was like some really bad wind the other day. Oh yeah. And I was like, yeah, I know exactly what night that was because that was the night that I drove from Kansas city to Stanbury, Missouri. How far? Um, it's about two hours with a tailwind or headwind. Luckily on the way there, I was, I wasn't getting shifted too much, but cause I was going North, um, for the most part,

but anytime I would go a little bit East or West it would like shove my car it was like dangerous feeling like it was like huh like white knuckling yeah yeah and so we get into town um and i don't know i don't even know the address of this place like i tried to look it up on my google maps and it wasn't coming up and so you know i called dim check and i'm like hey let's just meet at uh casey's here which is classic yeah old you know small town casey's uh so we get to case, um, he comes up to me and this is the first time I'd ever met Dim check in public person as well. Like, which is just funny to me because he he's like, trust me enough to hire, help me, you know, help find a job for me. But literally like we, we like shake, you know, dap up, whatever, shake hands. It's as we like hit hands,

the entire town just like goes black. Like as you hit hands., whatever, shake hands. As we like hit hands, the entire town just like goes black. As you hit hands? Yes. Kind of cool. Kind of cool, honestly. But I mean, it was crazy, windy, crazy, huge storms. Like there was like tornado, like warnings and watches, whatever the, I mean, and so like, it was nuts. I was like, I might die tonight. Like genuinely, I thought that I was like, because like there was no lights, you know, in this whole town and we get on the phone with this woman, she's like, just go, you know, over the bridge and we're right there. And so we get there. And I mean, it is literally like, like right as we get inside, it just like downpours and like wind. And I mean, it's, it's like nuts. It was like one of the crazier weather

experiences I've ever had. Gosh, nobody's going to show up. Yeah. And I was, it's it's like nuts. It's like one of the crazier weather experience that ever gosh Nobody's gonna show up Yeah And I was as I was driving I was like do not cancel this thing because this is my one time and I was like I Had prepared for like days before yeah Yeah, like like like pretty much like the entire day for like three days in a row like like practicing it doing it You know in my garage to awesome And you know like going to the you know coffee shop and making sure I have it all memorized It sounds like that'd be such a bummer for multiple reasons but yeah there were supposed

to be like 200 people there and like half of them showed up and so it's like kind of a bummer yeah it was kind of a bummer on the the side of like the owners as well because they're like you know we're trying to do this huge shebang they're there yeah it's like i think it was like their 10-year anniversary of a company and so, uh, they were kind of bummed. And so that kind of made us kind of feel like bad, almost like if they're bummed, you're paying us a decent amount of money, but you don't feel like this is worth it. Um, but anyway, it was, it was a great, like the venue itself. Well, I'll yeah. The venue itself was sweet. Like, uh, it was, it was like, you know, this old cabinet shops showroom. And so it was like,

just a normal, it looked like a normal place, like a normal room. I don't know. Um, but right when I walk in, like the first thing I hear this owner, like I was, I was anticipating, like, I know ag people, I know farmers, you know, I have lots of experience. I went to K state. I have lots of experience with farmers. I was in farmhouse fraternity, like all these different things. You would always say to me i know farmers you always say that i've always said that um and so you know i i felt like i had a great grasp of like my audience and my clientele and my goodness i i don't think it's i know it's over generalizing but there's a difference between kansas farmers and missouri farmers these guys i mean right off the bat this guy dropped some f-bombs you know just like throat

whereas like kansas farmers we're thinking wholesome farmer 100 wholesome a little bit more reserved a little more like uh humble these guys were just like which i mean it shows like they're going all out for these like this employee appreciation christmas dinner but like yeah these guys were like way more super fun and like outgoing. And but they were also just like crazy. And I was like, oh, wow. OK, I don't know if my family jokes are going to translate very well. You guys got families. OK, you know what a family is, though, right?

Yeah, yeah. You know, you know, you don't you don't spend time with them, but you know, OK, you know, no, they were they were nice people and it was great. But yeah, there are a few things. So so first of all, we had dinner beforehand and it was a. Um, but yeah, there are a few things. So, so first of all, uh, we had dinner beforehand and it was a great little barbecue catered dinner. And it was just me and Demchek sitting by each other by ourselves talking. It's like the photographer and the videographer. Yes, exactly. It's just like, everyone else knows each other. We only have each other.

And literally I was, I was asking like, get to know you questions to Alex. I did that. I was like, so where are you from Columbia? Right. He's like, no, no, I grew up in Illinois. Oh, okay. You know, like literally getting pleasant planes, pleasant planes. Yeah. That's a nice name. That's like, that's a good, uh, company name, right? Sounds like a place you would drop in fortnight. We, we drop in pleasant place. We always go pleasant place. Uh, but anyway, like, and I, I, I ask him, I go, so like, have you ever had, I love asking like, and hearing questions or hearing stories like this, I'm like, have you ever had a time where you just absolutely bombed? Like at a speaking engagement, you know, I love hearing like the failures and he's like in a very like humble, like not in like a,

you know, super braggy way, but he's like, no, I mean, every time it's, they've always said it's gone well and they really appreciate it. Uh, and I think at the end of, at the end of his night in Stanbury, he goes he goes well I think I could say that I've had one kind of bad one now I mean genuinely like he gets up there so we're supposed to each do 30 minutes so and he does like leadership motivational speaking so like normally talking to like corporate teams and so we had to shift from corporate teams to like individual farmers and like basically try to he was trying to like basically uh i don't know motivate them to

have new goals for the upcoming years is what i would close yes exactly glow us close um and genuinely i i'm not even kidding first of all like we get up we had a little corner stage it wasn't elevated or anything but it's like a corner thing. Our microphones were way too quiet. Oh, no. Which is always a bad thing. Yep. And then the people that were watching us. Actually, that hurts me.

Right? Oh, gosh. That sucks. And he was first to go. And so it's hard for me to tell him, like, talk louder. Because I'm in the back. And then it was, let's just say there's all these little uh v's for the tables that's where people are sitting and eating and some people didn't even turn around to listen to him and there was one

there was one guy in particular where like he was genuinely talking as loud as you and i are talking right now while i was the whole time oh the whole time to the point where it was like this is incredibly awkward like to the point where i honestly thought like i almost said something when i got up there and then i was like maybe this guy's got some issues or something that was because it was like that, like that inconsiderate to me, or maybe he's the mayor of the town. Maybe no one wants to stand up to him, but it was unbelievable. Let's hope this guy's not the mayor. I'll just say that. But no, it was just unbelievable to me. Like this guy is talking. And so, and so I was like, I get up there alex is supposed to do 30 minutes

i think he did like 15 and got out of there he's like no one wants to listen to me right now he had all these handouts so like people take notes no one was taking notes i was trying to take notes and like nod along to give him some confidence and stuff you're writing down goals oh yeah oh i still have them alex just fyi um so I get up there and honestly, like it kind of, uh, helped me like be more relaxed. Cause I was like, well, if it goes poorly, it's not like Alex is very successful at this. He does this a lot. Yeah. So if it goes poorly, it's not completely my fault. It's maybe just a tough crowd. Um, and so I get up there and I don't remember exactly what joke I was telling, but I like

pause for comedic effect, you know, like not, not, not like a punchline yet, but just pausing and no one was talking. And so I was like, okay, that's good. Like I have your attention. I have their attention. Yes. Yes. That is a good sign.

But yeah, overall the night went well, I would say, I would say, well, high pitched. Well, I know that's what I keep telling people. Like good. It went as well as I think it could. Like what I keep telling people like good. It went as well as I think it could. Like, I don't think like, and as far as the standard goes of these people, like literally front row, this guy had a let's go Brandon shirt on. And so I was like, okay, here we go. Uh, the best, best joke of the night. I almost like it was kind of a improvised thing. Love it. Um, Stanbury, Missouri, if you go on their Wikipedia page, they don't have notable

people. They have notable person and you click on it. It's Jim Spain. Barry is the guy's name, Spain. And he was a politician, uh, you know, back in like the early,

like sixties or something like that. And I was like, anybody, you know, Jim J old J Spain, anybody related to him, you know, like whatever.

And no, like it's completely, completely dead. No one's saying anything. I was like, Oh yeah, well he was a Democrat so that makes sense and everyone loved that but then there were other times where I thought like the mani

pedi joke over their head or they just didn't like it either way but they didn't love that but did you have some jokes you're like wow like I got a good reaction to this like I'm excited to say this again like anything that you like I don't I I honestly haven't like gone through like joke'm excited to say this again like anything that you like i don't i i honestly haven't like gone through like joke by joke to remember um there were some though that i was like it was more on the other side like the negative side of like oh i thought that joke was funny but i didn't but then again i i'd like people were like not laughing hard ever like it wasn't besides that one joke it was like but but people came up to me afterwards like i really enjoyed that but i was

like did you you could have showed me by laughing could have laughed harder. Um, how long do you think you were on stage? I think I was up there for like 35 minutes. No way. Yeah. I timed myself. Like that's such a long time.

It was a very long time when it's not going great. No, I mean, it went fine. Like, I'm not saying like, I think it went good. I think it went. How'd you do like memory wise, like reciting what you had written down? Good. I think that's awesome. Yeah. I think well prepared. Uh, does it get you excited for F12 then? Yeah. I mean, it would be one of those things though. It's like, I would probably write

a lot of different jokes for that, you know, but, um, no, overall it was good. I actually have already been asked to do another comedy thing. Um, had you heard about that? The, the tractor pull was out the group text I was in. Yeah. So I'm going to be gone again. Uh, but I don't think I'm going to do that one because it's not very much money, but this guy's like, we can't offer you very much money, but if you want to come to our tractor pull and say some jokes, we can offer you and your family a nice prime rib dinner. I'm like, ah, I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to drive four hours for prime rib dinner, but tractor pull. I love that part of the office where Dwight is trying to seduce Donna or whatever. He's like,

you know, an exercise for two people that involves the whole body. She's like, okay, I see where you're going. Tractor pull, which I, I think I learned about that from you. Maybe tractor pull, maybe on the podcast we talked about it one time. It's basically when you literally people like race, like hauling tractors with their bodies yeah aren't they against each other one's trying to pull the other oh i don't know is it i've always imagined have you not been to one no i just know it's incredibly loud and i i've always imagined it being tractor tug of war oh wow one tractor is trying to pull against the other one oh it's people in like back-to-back tractors yeah i, yeah, yeah. I thought that... Humans trying to pull... I'm an idiot.

I mean, I don't know if mine's right, but it's definitely not like... No, you gotta be right. Like 20 kindergartners versus an adult. Like who could pull the tractor further? Tractor pull. So anyway. Yeah, overall, it was a good night. I mean, on the way back, like I thought I was going to get blown off the road again. Like it was just, I can't emphasize how crazy of the weather, the weather just affected everything so much. Uh, but, but because of that,

I think they might do another event. Cause they're like, well, half of our people weren't able to come because like they're close enough to Iowa and it's like farmers, you know, they don't live all in the town obviously. And so like people were having to drive like an hour and a half to get there. And so they're like, yeah, we can't, we can't make it so um but yeah overall it was a fun time and it was well yeah humble beginnings it was like yeah here we go like that's pretty memorable like first time doing it absolutely i thought a tornado was gonna blow me over yeah electricity in the entire town went hot a guy wouldn't turn around you know that's pretty memorable that's great oh man it was awesome so anyway it was fun and hopefully dim check and i'll meet again and do it again so dim check that just reminds me i learned recently maybe from alex texas where did

i see this anyway a guy that i was that was also in alex alex's wedding with me is now the bachelor oh really yeah whoa so i guess i don't remember meeting him i'm sure we did obviously either between the bachelor party or the entire wedding day we We were next to each other. We were at a groomsman room all day long. But now he's the bachelor. Talking about a glow up. So a glow up. Yeah. Stay tuned for that.

Okay. Just probably great guy. That's fun. I like that. Just a little factoid for it. What's his connection to him? I'm guessing Mizzou football. Okay.

We're not real close. Here's a fun... We're talking celebrities. Let's talk celebrities. Let's talk celebrities. Now it's kind of come out at this point, I but ben rector um recently snoop dog okay yes so so my cousin is really close friends with ben rector and he told me he's like yeah so ben did something with snoop dog recently and snoop dog i think this is the most gangster thing i've ever heard in my life snoop dog said you can either pay me $200,000 cash

or $500,000 like normal, like a check or something. And so Ben literally brought a bag of $200,000 cash. That's almost as much as Snoop Dogg feature costs. Yeah. I think so for like a day, but I think it's like so gangster that he's just like, I want cash like how i can't get over what like i hope ben makes it back yeah i hope i and maybe i i could be wrong on i think it was something around those lines i don't know but it was like it was like way such a difference if you're just paying cash which is just like classic like who cares yeah just take it take a wire transfer snoop well but snoop's gonna he's paying off other people with that cash under the table is what i'm saying i just think it's crazy oh that's cool yeah i saw ben's like album you know track list or whatever the other day i was like snoop dog and kenny g i think yeah

kenny g and also the album artwork of like am i supposed to know who this red character is it's from uh it's like uh jim henson you know who that is no he's like he did the muppets oh okay i think it's like one of his characters oh okay but i didn't really know either i kind of had to look into it cool hey ben if you're listening he does he's definitely listening that's cool that you got snoop on a song ben does follow your boy uh at your boy josh 55 and so he'll like comment every once in a while no way like that's pretty funny your boy josh literally he had one he had a post for new year's and he's like hey everyone it's your your boy Josh here, and I just want to say Happy New Year's. And so, yeah, that's about it.

Kind of out of breath. Yeah. It's just amazing how he's like, maybe I should say something else. He's like, no, that's all I have to say. That's pretty good. Happy New Year's. You want to talk celebs? Let's talk celebs. Let's talk celebs i uh oh i have two things that

i just thought of okay one i went on a comedy cruise for new year's eve i was down in uh bradenton florida like comedy cruise anna maria island just like a one night like not even one yeah tiny i mean i think it's a cruise ship kind of somewhere between is it like in the office that kind of ship yes like a booze cruise okay shaped typed sized size is the word i want okay um and it's just like an hour and a half long of just like local comedians and it was a good mix i wanted it to be just like open mic style just awkward and that's how funny it is okay um the host looked like i don't know like he was like a greasy haired like gas station attendant okay and he ended up being the funniest one all of them he

was great he didn't get much time but he was great drew interesting okay the other people uh i mean all over there was this woman i should have a video of her maybe i could play it just yeah i'll play it later okay i don't know what her shtick was i don't know if it was even comedy then the next guy was named dick from new jersey and he was one of the raunchier people i've ever heard and it was just it was nothing but old people on this boat it's like very much a retirement community was there any old people that liked it no okay there was one guy in an orange shirt to the left too i don't he had to be related to dick because there's no way you could think that was funny and then the last guy who went was 71 and he knows his audience because he just pandered so hard to these old

people really it was like a five minute spain where he just preached about the younger generation they don't know how to do things these days people literally said amen to him oh they were not even laughing anymore is it amen amen so it's just you and a bunch of old people there yeah listen these comedians yeah um it was very interesting yeah the preaching is it one of those things where once you've done comedy enough like even if the people like obviously they weren't like terrible it sounds like it sounds like they were professional he did good for his audience he did great but is it one of those things where like like i if as a musician you know quote unquote like as a worship leader anytime people are

leading worship i want to like give them i want to take notes basically you know like not literally but like i want to like i want to like respect them when they're up there even if you're like this comedian is not very good you're like i know what it's like to be up there yeah i thought i was like oh it's very well lit in here that's kind of a bummer yeah or this ah that's too bad right this person's not paying attention you know whatever right like it's like i want to respect him you know as he's up there because i know how hard it is up there. And at the same time, I also wanted afterwards to affirm like drew the guy, but I don't want to be like, Hey, from a fellow comedian, you did great. And I'm like, I'm not going to do that, but I want to,

I'm like, I want him to, you know, whatever. No, I will do that a lot. I don't say like from a fellow worship leader, but, but I'll go up to like the sound guys and, you know, doing the soundboard. I'll be like, Hey, great mix today, guys. No, seriously. Like I'm like, I'm a fellow worship leader, but, but I'll go up to like the sound guys, you know, doing the soundboard. I'll be like, Hey, great mix today, guys. Great mix today, boys. No, seriously. Like, I'm like, I'm like, cause it makes a huge difference. And it's like, it's probably an on a, what's that called? Unsung.

Yeah. Unsung hero. Like you don't recognize them very often. You just think like, Oh, it's the people up front, you know, whatever. So it's like, Hey, you know, great, great segue there, man. I don't know what you would say. Yeah. I'm trying to think of jokes that the old guy told that people were loving.

And everyone I was with, we were like, what? Is this an old person thing? What was it? Like you didn't even understand the joke? Yeah. Because most of them, I was like, dang, this isn't funny to me. But the old people around me are loving it. So, hey, good for you.

Yeah. But there were a couple that was like, what did he say? He's like, there was one time I had to take woodshop class. They had me make a birdcage. That was the day I learned to put a hole in front of the birdcage. That was the joke? Yeah. That one, not a lot of people laughed about.

I don't even know. I don't even get it. Yeah. I don't know what that one meant. There was another one. He was talking about, this was like almost right after that. He's like, then I go out to the garage, right? And he got the, got the peg boards that you put up your tools.

You draw around the tool. So you know where everything goes, where everything looks. My wife said, honey, can honey, can I use your hammer? I got to nail something in. I said, honey, not that hammer. That's the show hammer. People lost it at that. I do not know what that means.

I mean, that was like one of his biggest laughs of the night. That's my show hammer. I mean, like. Anyway, this was the guy who was really good. That's amazing. But like, because I'm thinking like, okay, maybe they just are laughing because it's like, yeah, you have one hammer that doesn't get used. It's just for show. But that's not hilarious.

I don't know. Anyway, here's the video. Hopefully this plays. It's not like I took 10 different videos and this is the one where she's the least funny. It's like I chose a 50-second portion to record and this is it. Okay. Let's play it and see how it sounds. They answered them incorrectly for where they are in their life.

So I told them, okay, okay, I'll tell you the secret. Huddle up, huddle up. Everybody come real close. Come up real close, y'all. Here's the secret. Here's the secret. I wait till around midnight, and then I strip down buck naked. And I go out behind the house to the pond, and I run around that sucker 13 times,

and I get a chicken over my head. And oh my God, then they get so excited, they're like, woo-hoo! They start taking notes. They're like, oh, oh, slow down. Now, do I have to go at midnight, or can I go a little earlier? Do I have to be buck naked, or can I wear flip-flops? Now, is that a live chicken or can I get that sucker at Publix? That's why I love people.

I do, I love people, but of course the person I love the most in this world is my beloved Bob. But you know, like I said, if you've been married or been in a relationship... A little sympathy laugh for me at the end. But i don't even know like where where was i supposed to laugh there or what but at the end did like people know that the answer was wab or whatever but she had said earlier that her husband bob's here oh okay that's weird i don't even know what the joke is so she was great we saw her and bob afterwards in the parking lot it was awesome making with the chicken or swinging around my head 13 times i said can i go at midnight or can i go to 11 30 what a weird it was awesome it was awesome it was great you're like this is my future

i can't wait i want to be on a comedy cruise in florida someday oh man did you do anything for new year's eve uh not really we were originally, uh, hang out with my sister and her like, whatever. We've just had a lot of sickness in our family. And so my mom was not feeling good the night before. So we're like, maybe we should just chill for a second. Gotcha. So we had Peter and Sophie over and we just hung out fun and yeah, got some blue bell ice cream. Fun. Yeah. Stayed up till 11. We stayed up till midnight, but they, they left around 11 so it's good time nice nothing nothing great we played monopoly deal you ever heard of that played it it's like with cards right yeah it's kind of fun i got it for uh stocking stuffer stocking stuffer

stocking stuffer so um but yeah nothing nothing crazy nothing nothing like that did you did you stay there i mean that was from 6 to 7 30 so yeah we had a lot of night ahead of me afterwards i turned on at 11 58 i turned on like pete davidson and miley cyrus's whatever i really enjoyed just those like three minutes i had it on it was so casual because like we briefly we had it on like the time square one or whatever and it's just so just like cookie cutter it's like you guys can i wish you guys could be here you can feel the energy down here it wasn't the time they didn't even have people there did they yeah i think so i saw oh really yeah yeah it looked normal oh when i watched it for five minutes there was like no one in the background oh weird it's like new york was like

shut down or something oh and so but they went to like new orleans and they had people maybe i don't know anyway but either way then i went to the p davidson one and he's just in a t-shirt just like walking around and it's 11 58 and he's just like what's going on what are your guys names he's just like talking to people and it's like clearly live because it's not that funny or anything and then he's like oh you're related to the guy performing tonight no way okay I didn't know that these people they don't tell me anything they just send me out here I don't know what's going on and uh he got paid so much money yeah and then he was just like all right it, it's about midnight. I'm going to, I guess I'll head back to the stage now. And he's like, you guys want to start counting down soon?

Or all right, let's just do it now. 17, six. It was so, I enjoyed so much. Really? How casual it was. That's funny because I started watching that one. And like, when he started going down into like the audience, I was like, this is terrible. Like I did not enjoy it.

I mean, maybe if I watched it for anything longer than two minutes, I would have been bored. But I was like, for it being 1158, he was just like, all right enjoy it i mean maybe if i watched it for anything longer than two minutes i would have been bored but i was like for it being 11 58 he was just like all right it's almost midnight literally like when i watched him go down to the stage he goes i'm gonna kill some time i think they have a few more minutes before miley's coming back out or something yeah it was fun oh that's awesome yeah whatever none of them are that good anymore yeah pretty low standard for him baseball is finally back. Get in on Major League action and swing for the fences with BetMGM,

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purple then you should root for the vikings whoa i'm like wait a second you know and then i just quizzed her i was like what color are the lions she's like blue what she's like knows them all where from because she watches red zone with me and red zone obviously and you know red zone they switch teams like every and she is taking in that information somehow and she'll go she'll go which teams are these and i'll say that's the Bills and the Dolphins. She says, I want the Dolphins to win. And then it'll switch again. You know, what teams are these?

She likes the Buccaneers a lot, which don't want to break it to her. I was just talking about this yesterday. I was in the Tampa airport. And I was like, when I was a kid, we went on some sort of, my dad had a work trip in Tampa. And I remember being like four years old, driving past the Buccaneers, Raymond James Stadium. And there was a huge pirate ship. And I was like, that's awesome.

Yeah. That looks like a toy. Do they still have that? I think so. I think they do too. Yeah, that is pretty sweet. So I don't blame her for liking the Bucs.

Yeah, if she saw that, she'd really be in on it. She just likes that they're pirates. Did you see how close they were to losing to the Jets today? They didn't lose? They ended up,

yeah, Tom Brady, 50 seconds left, no timeouts, drove all the way down the field. Did you see what happened to Antonio Brown? Yes. I didn't see that till later.

It was muted, so I didn't really hear what was going on. I saw him. I was like, oh man, he see what happened to Antonio Brown? Yes. That was, I didn't see that till later. Like in the, it was muted. So I didn't really hear what was going on. I saw him. I was like, oh man, he like left. He got ejected. Yeah. Well, I was like, oh, he left the team in the warmups or something. That's crazy.

And then they show him like in the end zone, it says 24 to 10. I'm like, this is halfway through the game. He just left. We talked about Antonio Brown on this podcast two years ago because he was creating such a distraction. He was on the Raiders. First, he wouldn't show up because his helmet didn't fit. He's complaining about the new helmet they made him wear a new helmet and he's through such a hissy fit like a toddler he's like I'm not coming then and then in his time not with the team he gave himself

frostbite on his foot from like a cryotherapy tank yes and just all these other stuff went wrong yes such a drama queen he's finally and he's he's, he's wild. He was the one that, did you hear about his, the fish in his freezer? What? Dude. I thought you were going to say the fake vaccine card.

Well, that's crazy too. And the reason that he like got outed is because like the chef or somebody, he didn't pay the chef. Wait, hold on. That's who like,

that's who like leaked the story. No, what? I don't even know the story. What happened? So like he, yeah, he like,

he like faked that he got vaccinated with a fake vaccine card. Yeah. And I think it was his private chef. Like he didn't pay him. And so the private chef, like out of vindication was like, okay, well, I'm going to tell people. He has a fake vaccine card. Yeah.

Oh, wow. But then there's this other story. I should look it up to like, maybe you could look it up real quick. Just look up like Antonio Brown fish head freezer or something like that. I'm pretty sure he thought that like i think his chef like cut off one of the fish heads and put it in his freezer and he thought that was like a threat of like like it was some mobster yeah it was like except for the godfather or something so i think he like fired his chef for that too so the raiders star was absent so this is from

2019 for most of training camp as he dealt with the frostbitten feet and a helmet issue but wait there's more brown is being sued by celebrity chef whatever over an unpaid 38 000 bill um that he could from 2018 yeah i think yeah whatever from what i understand yeah the guy cut off this fish head and put it in the freezer today she told tmc that after he cooked an elaborate salmon meal for brown's party he put the salmon head in the freezer to make stock but the next day apparently brown and his crew had been watching Goodfellas that night because Tedeschi said someone from the Brown's crew found the fish head and thought it was a mob threat. So Brown fired him and wouldn't let him retrieve his things. That's amazing.

So he's a little wild. Tedeschi initially thought it was a joke, but they were dead serious. I say, who could have possibly misunderstood a fish head in the freezer? Tell me, what person with intelligence could have misplaced a fish head for some mob horse head? It's like, do we really live in 1920s New York? Yeah. Al Capone style or something. I talked to a guy on stage.

I don't know what show that was a few weeks ago, but I was talking to him. He already had an Italian accent. His name was Antonio. I asked him what he did. He said, I work like insurance and i was like what kind of insurance he said life insurance i was like geez this guy like for sure works for the mafia yeah i work in sanitation it's like okay anyway yeah the garbage antonio brown he's on a good team last week he had like 10 catches for 100 yards he's getting the ball he's got tom brady throwing to him in the middle of the game just quit that's all we know right now that's all we know something

will probably come out tomorrow and the coach said like he's off the team like he's done oh i'm sure he's probably so do we do we take him on the chiefs do we take him as part of the ghost podcast go go glow sweater podcast anton sweater podcast why not dude how do we get to antonio brown what we're talking about oh Oh, I asked about Tom. Yeah. Tom Brady, Raymond James, Tampa,

Buccaneers, Hattie. The way I would have learned colors. And I think the way I did learn is I think I had a, uh, eating like placemat that had all the helmets on it. Oh, that's nice.

And visual, but Hattie's just picking up so easily. Oh, I had, I had posters back in the day that had them all on there. Oh yeah. All these different things, but it was,

I was, I was so surprised and proud of like, Holy cow. Like, you know, you know, this stuff, you know? And so she's getting into it. Um, we also went to Hattie's first in-person movie theater experience, uh, at union station the other day. Wow. We went to see polar express. Take that Omicron. It was awesome. Yeah. It was so much fun. Uh, it was classic. Like, you know, luckily there was only like 10 people in the theater. It was like three o'clock was only like 10 people in the theater.

It was like 3 o'clock on a Monday. Cool. Which Catherine had jury duty right before that. Oh, yeah. Her mom had jury duty the same day. Yes. What happened? Isn't that crazy?

Talk about a queen. I have no idea. I was like, that sounds like some kind of elaborate thing from the mob to get to your house. Different last names, different states. Right. And they both got appointed for jury duty that same time. But Catherine was so positive she she's gonna get out of it because she had kids and they're like no it doesn't matter you still have to stay here

i was giving her tips yeah i was like katherine just say like you walk in and say a racial slur right off the bat say you think that person looks like charles barkley and you don't like charles barkley very much or you know whatever uh but somehow she didn't get picked so she was able to go to polar express with us and but it was classic like there's 10 people in the theater but haddy anytime she had a question just like talk so loud yeah it's like what's going on with this it's like super quiet in the theater like you can't talk too loud uh but we went there and then we went to uh fritz's uh which is like this place in union station where they deliver all your food on these trains. The trains.

Oh, that video of her was awesome. Oh, where she like – Yeah, she's rubbing her hands together. Yes. I can't believe you captured that. Oh, it's like the most mediocre food, but it was such a fun time with her. So that was a fun experience. And then we had Sloan come. And then after – once Sloan was there for like two days,

Catherine, Hattie, and I all got like a stomach bug and like throw it up and it was just like the worst time ever and so that was that was kind of like the start of like oh man like Christmas is kind of kicking me in the tail here a little bit yeah um luckily we're we're feeling better now and everything but that's still still not amazing but you know better so thanks for being here thanks Thanks for recording. Oh, yeah, of course. Of course, of course. Earlier, when you said Stainberry on Wikipedia,

it made me think, I've never looked up what Stratford has on Wikipedia. I looked it up like 15 minutes ago and forgot. I've never heard this. I guess this is true. According to Ripley's Believe It or Not,

Stratford, Missouri, is the only town in the United States with two main streets and no back alleys. Can you think of... Okay. Can you think of anything to disagree with that? No. no back alleys. Can you think of, okay. Can you think of anything to disagree with that? No,

according to Ripley's, believe it or not, that's such a, that's such a, like a, out of, out of all places to like, you know,

like, Hey, let's, let's focus on this place with two main streets and no back alleys. Huh? That's none of your friends had alleys though. The road to the North was the main street until Route 66 was built between the backs of the businesses and the railroad.

The owners simply built new entrances, giving them two front doors. Really? I mean, I guess that makes sense. Yeah. There's no, yeah, I guess. That's funny. I can't even see only one. Your dad's going to be like, yeah, of course.

Of course I knew that. Yeah. Oh, dude, we're all over the place this podcast, but whatever. It's fine. Went to the KU game on Wednesday. Oh yeah. Did you hear about this? Well, my sister's boyfriend, Logan Cleaver, and that random person who took a picture we're all over the place this podcast but whatever it's fine uh went to the ku game on wednesday oh yeah did you hear about this well my sister's boyfriend logan cleaver and that random person who took a picture of you yes yes that was crazy no the sister's boyfriend thing was really weird

yeah that's what i was going to talk about because i was thinking of your dad and yeah whatever caitlin i i'm like looking up to try to find where my cousin and uncle are sitting and all of a sudden who knows been rector because who knows been rector yeah shout out joel what up all of a sudden there's brayden right is his name yeah um i mean like i don't know how many feet a thousand feet away like super far away like five six sections away all of a sudden there he is a thousand feet away but but like it's it was just the weirdest feeling of like like recognizing someone from that far away was he looking at you too no okay that would be wild but i i like zoomed in on him and like took a picture and he was it was just the weirdest feeling of like, like recognizing someone from that far away. Was he looking at you too? No. Okay. That would be wild.

But I like zoomed in on him and like took a picture and he was sitting next to like another girl, not your sister. Oh, but I was hoping it was his sister. So I, I was like, is this, is that Brayden?

Is he at a KU game? So, uh, but yeah, later on that night I get back, you know, home and I'm looking at our, uh,

ghost runners messages and somebody posted like found found half of the Ghost Runners podcast or something like that. And I'm like, what? Just a candid shot of you walking up the stairs. You're not even looking at them. Honestly, it was kind of jarring of like, how often do people see me in public

and just not say anything and just watch me? Hey, you look good though. Yeah. Oh yeah, always. But I'm like, did that person watch me the entire game? Like every single time I reacted. And they never got the nerve

to say something. Yeah. At least give a quick top golf, Rachel, a quick time I react and they never got the nerve to say something. Yeah. At least give a quick top golf, Rachel, a quick, Hey Brad. Yeah. Hey, get out of there. Yeah. As you're, as you're walking and they keep walking or something. Yeah.

But it was just like, it was like, Ooh, yeah. I was just a weird feeling. So, um, yeah. And the cleavers were there. It was just fun time. Yeah. Um, that's great. Talk about celebs.

Talk about celebs. You're the celeb. Well, let's talk about one more. Let's talk about celebs. Uh, Christmas Eve service. We go down to watermark in Dallas. Oh, I was jealous that you were there. I saw that. Uh, yeah, it was fun. A few different ghosties were like, no way we go there too, but we're not there right now. Uh, and then we get done with the service. Chris, it was great. It was like classic, like watermark, like make a church, like very produced, like very well done. It's it's awesome yeah it was awesome like yeah sensory overload but like you know they did a great job with it uh great sound

mix you know make sure the soundboard hey boys good good mix oh yeah christ is born manuel good mix i heard every word yeah exactly very well even the bass guitar that's right i heard it oh i could tell yeah i can even hear the piano you know know, it missed the, missed the heavy bass times. But, uh, we're out in the lobby, like waiting for, you know, her sister to get there or whatever. And this woman comes up, she's like, are you from a YouTube jean shorts? And I'm like, yeah, it usually seemed like my in-laws like thought it was the greatest thing, you know, like, like we're laughing, like kind of like making fun of me, but at the same time, like, like this woman's like, she's like me and my kids, we, you guys are on our TV pretty much all the time. Wow. Like we're watching you all the time. My daughter, my youngest daughter is gonna be so upset that you're here. She's like, she's like,

I didn't realize you were from Texas. And I was like, I'm not, you know, I'm on tour right now. Yeah. Right. I'm, I'm reviewing different soundboards. So we like, we're taking a picture at church and everything. She went full pick. Oh yeah. Cause yeah, it was her and her two kids. That's awesome. And yeah, it was just so fun. It's so, so funny. Like, cause somebody, then we got back to tech. Like, so we were in Dallas for this church, you know, service. And then we went back to Sherman, which is like 45 minutes away. And some of our family didn't go. And they're like, oh, did you get, did people know you or something? And I was like, actually, yeah, people did recognize me. So, you know, just left and right, man. I'll tell you what. That reminds me. This is an aggravement story. I didn't even write down to talk about, but I'm trying to leave the Kansas City airport.

And I parked in economy parking. Shuttle bus has not come in a while. I'm starting to get a little nervous. Like, does it, does it come all the way in the back? So then now I'm doing a little jog cause it's cold. I got golf clubs in one hand suitcase in the other, not a very pretty looking job. No. I finally get to like, where I see different weights. And so you're kind of like,

Sean rolls differently than the other. Yeah. Um, I finally get to this like shell area where I see other people. So my great, uh, we can wait together. I get there. Huh? And then this, the husband immediately is like snaps me points his finger and he goes you i you were in grace i know you from graceland and way in kansas city yeah this is kansas city airport economy parking parking lot and the first thing that came to mind i wasn't really thinking but i was like oh my, like my family and I were just talking about that yesterday that we went, this is probably not what you're talking about, but yeah, I went to Graceland when I was in seventh grade

and he's like, no, no, no, no, hold on. Oh yeah. Probably from seventh grade. Right. I think I said, this is probably not what you're talking about, but funny you bring that up. I was just talking about Graceland. Anyway.

He was like, no, I i i recognize you from graceland and i was like oh you know probably three or four weeks ago yeah i was in uh graceland i was in memphis i think graceland specifically and he was like awesome yeah no i was i was there i was like you were at the comedy show and he goes no what i was like uh i was like i went golfing when i was there but that was like in mississippi like that was some city nearby he's like i don't golf and then the wife's getting in on it oh and then i think even before that this guy's so confident though yeah yeah no i saw you in grayson as soon as i get there the shuttle pulls up it's like oh thank goodness i ran here like that was so great yeah so we get on the bus they can't figure out how they know me i'm like oh well

you know i'm thinking i'm getting recognized this so great. So we get on the bus, they can't figure out how they know me. I'm like, oh, well, you know, I'm thinking I'm getting recognized. This guy has no clue. We get on the very packed shuttle bus. I can't put my bags in. We're having to hold golf clubs, hold my suitcase, no time to hang on. I kind of like fell into the other people. Anyway, I just got done running. So I'm very warm. I get in the bus now, very hot already. To make things hotter, this guy, we we are sitting he is sitting i'm standing we're far apart he's not willing to let it go he then yells at me through his mask what else did you do when you're in graceland and so then i have to yell back like basically he was asking questions that don't have a very like humble answer and it made me so uncomfortable

and just aren't so hot what What else did you do? Um, mainly just, just the comedy show. Yeah. We were only there one night. You, do you do a lot of shows in Graceland? No,

we, we, we go to several other cities. It's going to be like a hundred by the time we're done. And then the wife is getting in on it. Like we've been meaning to go to a comedy show. Do you have any, you'd recommend in Graceland?

No. They're like so fixated on Graceland. Yeah, I'm like. Like, stop with Graceland. They're like 18 hours. Oh, but it was just so interesting. It was like he was so convinced. He saw me in, not just Memphis, but a specific suburb of Memphis that I have been in recently.

But they swore up and down. No, we haven't been to a comedy show in years. So, I don't know. That's why. Never got to the bottom of that one was was he weird like that's a weird look normal seem normal act normal oh the yelling on the bus is a little weird but that's just a weird thing to be like i know you from graceland but i don't know where but wait graceland's a city i think it has become a city. Like I think it's Elvis's birthplace or no, Elvis is born at Tupelo. Elvis's mansion is in Graceland. I just thought Graceland was the name of the mansion.

Ah, but you're, you're making it sound like maybe it's like, I think it's, I think it's its own city now. Okay. So maybe that's a little more like, yeah,

either way. It was just once again, getting so excited that I'm going to get recognized. Here we go. And then like my nose is getting rubbed in it. Right. You, you like that?

Now you have to endure this conversation. I went to church today and this guy was like, Brad? And I did not recognize him at all. And I was like, oh man, here we go again. And it turns out it was a youth group kid that I just like had gone to college and has long hair and a mustache now. So I was like, okay. Here we go again.

So I was like, oh man, I got to stop. You got to stop thinking that way. It is tough. What else do I want to talk about? I got a lot of stuff written down. I mean, it's been three weeks. How much has happened? I mean, I did six comedy shows, and I haven't even talked about those.

I saw the I'm Down voice. Haven't even talked about that yet. Yeah, so you went to Michigan. I don't even know what to say. You basically went all over Michigan and then Minnesota, right? Yeah, I spent a week at home with my family for Christmas. There's so much. Just start.

Minneapolis twice, Grand Rapids, and then three shows in detroit which is fun so three shows okay yeah made plenty of jokes at the lion's expense or the automotive industry i tried to make a little innuendo with the word dipstick and i don't know if that really landed. I remember that. Let's see. They didn't love dipstick, huh? No, they didn't. Trying to think what else. Did the I'm Down Boys go to any of the shows? No, not that I know of.

Okay. But got to see them. I texted Clint the day, like, me and my friends were going to go up to northern Michigan to kind of traverse city area. But didn't know if we were going to ski or not, if there'd be snow. Well, it's snowing as we're driving up there. So I text Clint like, Hey, I think we're going to ski if you want to join or whatever. And so he's like, great, we'll be there. And I get there and like all seven, I think almost all of them are all already there. And so it's like, afterwards I learned that they were not planning on skiing. I maybe got that impression. I was like, maybe they were going to do this anyway. And that's why they were already here. But I don't got that impression. I was like, maybe they were going to do this anyway. And that's why they were already here.

But I don't know if they had plans or what, but they were all there. They all made time to ski. I got to meet all of them. I wish so bad they could hang out with more of them for a longer amount of time. But they were so great. I mean, they're the I'm down boys. Yeah, they're awesome. They were down.

They were down to ski. Yeah, and that was what they were saying. I'm like, I mean, we're just down. I was like, that totally makes sense. But they were all so great. They were down to ski. Yeah. And that was what they were saying. Like, I mean, we're just down. I was like, that totally makes sense. But they were also great. Got to talk to all of them. Um, the unofficial member was cams,

a little brother. He was in the mix. Okay. Uh, or maybe it's official. Sorry. I don't think you're not the same age. How do you,

how do you get inaugurated into the, I'm down. Yeah. I don't know. Like next generation. I'm down boys 2.0. Yeah, maybe.

Um, yeah, they're great. Skiing is kind of a hard time to talk to people, you know, so we tried to just get to know them up on the ski lifts and different stuff but yeah um really fun skiing in michigan clint is by far the best skier i've ever been around really i've been around some skiers yeah like what what constitutes a good skier just like smoothness yeah ability to do tricks while not even skiing ability to do he could do something called the push-up.

What is that? It's where you bend your skis a lot and go down on the ground and do a push-up and then push yourself back up while still wearing skis. And going downhill at the time? No, no, no. Just static, stationary. Oh, wow. He was just doing stuff I've never seen anybody do.

Can he ollie? Can he do a Benihana? Can he do a kickflip? Can he do a command P?? Can he do a kickflip? Can he do a command P? Yeah. That one's tough. Can he do a lefty loosey? Uh-huh.

What about a righty tighty? Yeah. Anyway, it was just awesome. I wish so much that I got more time with him. Because like I said, I just didn't fully realize, oh, I think they all are here to hang out with me. And I don't know if I fully gave them all of the attention I could have you know i just the people pleaser and he was like dang maybe i could have made that better i don't know he was still really fun but so traverse city has like legit mountains

no okay hills they have hills is it like a snow creek kind of thing somewhere between snow creek so creek is like a thing in kansas city that's like manufactured mountains like with manufactured snow i mean they had like a couple black diamond runs they just don't last very long but they have some steep stuff so i was like i did not know michigan's michigan i would not have expected that either yeah i forgot i did check my notes i did get recognized in the last three weeks once charles in the lululemon pop-up shop in traverse city oh baby it was kind of fun because those pop-up shops. I love the pop-ups. Yeah. Yeah. But he was really great. He was really cool.

He was just like, man. That's all I said for a while, shaking his head. I've seen a lot of videos with you and a man. And I was just like, oh, hey, how's it going, man? And anyway, he was really great. It was a good time talking to him. I had a guy that worked with my sister back in the day that we're friends on Facebook and stuff. Messaged me a link to our passive aggressive Christmas gifts video on jean shorts, like Instagram. And he's like, dude, this guy looks so much like you.

What? And I just thought it back. I'm like, that is me. He's like, no way. He's like, it was on my explore page. I had no idea. And I was like, like yeah it's cool to see the gene shorts videos taken off recently are they well yeah the ones on youtube yeah it

was crazy like yeah it was like number one and then it was like number one again number one again we posted three videos in a row that outperformed the one before it yeah that was awesome that was really fun glad people like the starbucks husband video so much yeah really glad that we kind of revised it to what it became. Yeah. It was, it was rough at first. I was like, that's not what I was thinking it was going to be. You did such a good job too.

Cause I couldn't put my finger on it, but you did a good job and it's better now. Thanks. Yeah. That was fun. Um, what are we, we got some,

we got some still in the hopper that we're going to do. We, I couldn't remember. We have, uh, restaurants. Remember we recorded that one a long time ago. Um,

and then I have another conservative dad part two oh yeah uh which i think is funnier than conservative dad part what the frat roll call that's another one yeah it's in the hopper did you have to edit that uh no i i've been out of town i haven't had wi-fi good enough to download derek's like 4k raw footage because i think we were like divvying up like the editing stuff since we were posting so much and they were like i think trey or jake you were going to edit it and I was like that's going to be way more confusing for you guys I wasn't there yeah because we literally just like it probably took us five minutes to record like it was like a very quick like oh cool but it was like you know just

like all over the place but then after we recorded one thing we recorded audio to like put in there later and you know whatever anyway, we'll see. That one could absolutely flop. I'm kind of confident it might, but we'll see. But yeah, man. What else? I got a lot of other stuff. I'm an Apple Watch guy.

Yeah, you are. I love my heartbeat. It's the only app I care about. I check my heart rate all the time. Have you actually looked at the time very much on there yet? Oh oh like time of day yeah no no time of my heartbeat yes just i also took my first ekg um wait i'm trying to remember what that one does now either way i'm good i'm good there yeah that was heart rate heart stuff i think that oh the ekg is the type of heartbeat you have oh i didn't look into it before. Yeah. This has got a little scary.

It says, um, everything's kind of in red font, I think, cause it's blood based, but I was just like, oh, oh yeah. Something's the matter. Yeah. So it gets me my results. It takes like 30 seconds and it's like, you have a sinus rhythm. I was like, oh, that's not good. No, you don't want, you don't want sinus.

I mean, sinus pain is a good sinus allergy. Yeah. Sinuses. No one ever talks about sinuses in a good way. Yeah. So I was like, oh, oh, why'd I ever get this thing? Turns out, I think sign is like, you know, the prefix like singular. You have like a good, like there's one heartbeat, one rhythm.

Oh, okay. There's some other thing that's like arrhythmia or whatever. So I was a little scared, but we're good. I got a good heartbeat. Good job. What kind of like pushed you over like the edge to get Apple Watch watch i've been with people all week who have them and i was looking at them i was like that looks kind of fun okay and it is already working uh like i i already want to be more fit really you can like share there's like a competitive aspect to it you can

like share with friends like i just got a notification like so-and-so just did a workout like i want to you burn more calories than me yeah i. I want to do this. And I've seen how much I stay in. I mean, whatever. Yeah. I also, the new watches, you could do a, you could test your blood oxygen levels, which how I don't buy it. Yeah. I looked at it. It's like, yeah, it measures the amount of hemoglobin in your blood.

How most humans are between 94 and a hundred percent. I got 96. So you're right. Yeah. So I don't know this thing of metal outside of my skin knows how much hemoglob is inside of my skin

hemoglobin no shot huh so anyway I'm it is fun really in my heart now with the watch

because you know you never wore one before no unless it was at camp yeah I love it dude just a little update speaking of celebs yeah

we're still back the celebrity episode. I have some poultry. Okay. This is one of the more boomer takes you're going to hear from me. Oh, I like it. I like boomer already. What are...

I got to talk. What is the deal with rappers these days? Yeah. You know, back in my day, it was Lil Jon. Yeah. Lil Wayne. Lil Kim. Lil Kim. She makes my top five little flip little flip chingy yeah easy fun names fabulous fabulous yeah who we got now now uh-huh i just think the names

are so wordy it's so lame i want to focus on one specifically okay nba young boy that's like a very famous rapper's name really and it drives me nuts have you heard this name before no okay no yeah i've given up on rap that that you want to talk about boomer i'm done with even hey let's leave this in 2021 right right rap music right guys yeah clear skies about new rap yeah anyway young boy pretty popular rapper. Okay. Every time I see his name, I get perturbed. That's terrible.

NBA Youngboy. One, wordy. Yeah. Two, stupid. Three, there's a copyright in it. Can you just take someone else's copyright and have it be your trademark now? Hey. I'll tell you.

I'll tell you you can't. I'm Lil Applebees. You have to call me that now. Yo, what up? Yeah. Yo, what up? It's me, Big Arby's. I'm Young Home Depot. Yeah. to call me that now. Yo, what up? Yeah. Yo, what up? It's me, Big Arby's. I'm Young Home Depot.

Yeah, they call me Big Matt. Like, I don't think so. I don't think so. I'm Miss Big Warby Parker. They call me Lululemon. Lululemondrop on the track. It just doesn't seem fair that you could just be someone else's copyright nba young boy nba young that's a terrible name that doesn't flow at all no for

somebody whose literal job is to flow nba young boy that does not go like no no i don't like it i uh whenever we were having the ghost runners basketball thing i made a shirt that said grkc with the nba logo on it and a couple people bought it and then it didn't ever get printed because it was like yeah you can't do that like printful did not let us do it so huh i'll tell you nba they're they're they're strict that's what i'm saying nba young boy if you listening look out i don't know how you made it this far uh yeah ernie johnson's coming for you cease and desist yeah charles barkley fun rap name cease and desist duo i'm cease he's desist desist da see why it's it's i have a desist on my shoulder i have a can you hey doc can you take a look at this i think i have a desist right back there cease and desist what up dude i was at dinner with some people a couple nights ago and i don't know

how it got started but basically we played the game that you and i played while playing bingo several years ago where we would give people bingo things and they'd have to use it in a sentence yeah it was so fun it was so just like a fun improv game which you're specifically doing with bingo yeah only bingo things and the numbers align too so it's like i18 yeah go for it yeah b10 have fun oh that was a fun time oh that's a good time. So anyway, NBA young boy. Silly. Silly. That's just silly.

How are your parents and your sister doing back in Stratford? Oh, they're great. Good times. This was the first time ever that any one of the kids, me, Caitlin, or Cousin Steve-O, that have not been there on Christmas morning. Who was it? My sister with old KU Brayden Brayden was up visiting his family and so she didn't get there till like Christmas afternoon and so we shamed her so hard wow it's like well well well times are changing

Christmas after I don't know she got there at night well well well yeah she get there till 8 30 at night I just remembered so Christmasmas night yeah so we did christmas on the 26th wow um so i was different which yeah my parents were they weren't actually upset but i just made sure to remind them you've had us for a pretty long time seriously i'm 30 she's 27 you got us for a lot of christmases right so if they start to be a little different it's like very rare to like actually celebrate on christmas now like for us yeah i mean it's every other year i guess but like so it's not that rare but 50 it's pretty rare um so yeah that's good i got to play it was like 65 on christmas day 70 christmas eve so golfing my dad the day before christmas day a lot of pickleball in uh uncle johnny's driveway are you still as addicted as ever to golf like

yes is it hasn't gone down it has not gone down at all especially because florida i played twice this past week in florida i think it's the best two rounds I've ever played in my life. So you're like, I am amazing. And I can't. Yeah. It's like, I don't even know when the next time we'll get to golf. So that's a bummer, but it's going well. It's going well, dude.

But anyway. Oh, so yeah. Family's doing good. Had some great just time with the other family members. So Cousin Steve-O, who you know. Yeah. Former. Sir Speedy Slugger. Yes. Former teammate. Casey Reds. On the Slugg members. So Cousin Steve-O, who you know, former... Sir Speedy Slugger.

Yes, former teammate. KC Reds, yeah. On the Sluggers. Yeah, baby. So he is... He could jump a fence. I cannot. That is what we know about him.

Yeah. We also know that he has moved up to Madison, Wisconsin. He's doing medical research. From Kansas City, right? Yes. A few years here. Yeah.

And so he's getting his PhD in research. So every time I talk to him, I've learned something new that he's always like, now we don't totally know this, but here's what we're thinking. So it's always interesting. So I got some stuff. Oh, one of the things, I don't even know if I want to say this because it's like, Steve, are you sure? He is theorizing.

He is claiming we are not doctors. This is not medical advice. Good. And this isn't even his department. He's just saying in the industry, we are starting to discover that you are more likely to have almost every kind of illness or imperfection, whatever you call it, if you were born of a C-section. Okay. And they're not doing current studies. This is just looking at previous data that already exists, looking at how people were born and what they end up with.

And I think the percentages are just higher for everything. Heart disease, allergies. It doesn't have to be major things, but it just like anything. I think I've heard something along those lines. You're more likely to get it. He, Hey, two hands up. Yeah. Cousin Steve-O said so.

I don't know. I think I've heard that theory at least. Like, it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. After having two kids, you like hear stuff like that. Like I will say while he told me this, it was Christmas day. I'm dressed pretty nice. It's Christmas day. Yeah. Yeah. I've actually, after having two kids, you like hear stuff like that. Like, I will say while he told me this, it was Christmas day. I'm dressed pretty nice. It's Christmas day. Yeah. Steve-O is wearing a workout shirt inside out. Inside out. Maroon sweatpants and hiking boots. Okay. So imagine information coming from that. It's like, I don't know if I can trust it. It's like the guy. Yeah. The guy, there's no back alleys in Stratford, but the guy, you know, on one of the main streets, just like tell you back in my day, you know,

no back alleys. Don't don't. Yeah. No back alleys, no C-sections. He's also telling us something else about like the placenta or something like that. And he's doing some fun research. My grandpa gets in the mix and he's like, Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Cattle. They would eat their own placenta afterwards. Okay. And I was like, okay, here we go. Now we're more about this. Yeah. And I was like, oh yeah, cattle, they would eat their own placenta afterwards. Okay. And I was like, okay, here we go. Now we're talking about this. Yeah. And I was like, how many like births were you like around for?

Like, did you witness? Yeah. He's like, oh, I mean, I don't know how many I was around for, but I probably pulled out over a hundred calves. I was like, really? He's like, oh yeah. You just, you know, I think he just farmed cattle his entire life. So just like mama is laying down, maybe jerk around, maybe making noises.

Yeah. Calf's not coming out right. You got to get in there and pull it out. That I would, I would quit the farming industry right there. Yeah. Yeah. He, and I was like, what is the correct way to pull it out? And he said, the front hooves and nose should come out at the same time.

Cause I was, I was like, what do you even yank on? He said, you yank on the front hooves and you pull them out with the head. He said, sometimes they're- You're having to get two hands in there at once. Oh yeah. Your own nose and hooves. He said-

One hand on two hooves, one hand on nose. Is that what it is? I don't know if one hand is in the nose. I don't know. You get the nostrils that just pull. He said a lot of times why they can't come out is because they're completely backwards. You have to get in there and turn

like an entire calf around. Like you were inside of a uterus just flipping like a you know 40 pound animal around and then yanking it out how do you how do you how do you learn to do that without the internet that's what you should get some c-sections on cows so you should get give them some allergies yeah i'm a c-section baby you oh? Oh, yeah. Me, Caitlin and Steve-O. Oh, yeah. Three for three. It was hot back then. Sure. It was new.

It was fresh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was fun. Wow. Okay. So I love the image of him in what he's wearing. That's pretty funny to me.

Yeah. You're dressed up and he's like, yeah. The hiking boots threw me off the most. Those should be something you wear once a year right if you're hiking in snow i think even if you're just hiking on a path like why you need special shoes dude that's like that's like classic like medical research guy though like like he can wear whatever he wants to work probably he's focused on one thing and one thing only and that is the research he's like i didn't think about what shoes i put on i just saw some shoes and put them on i'm learning about the endocrine system i don't have time for this

did you guys play some Halo with the dads? No, we haven't played that in a while. I think it's just like the Xboxes have like, yeah, keeled over. My nephew's in town right now with my sister and he just recently got Madden for his Xbox 360. He's eight years old. Rest in peace. Yeah, seriously.

Which is kind of crazy. I watched the documentary and the next day he died. Okay, I was pretty sure that his documentary came out. Me and the family were like, is John Madden alive? I'm almost positive. I need to call my dad and ask. I'm almost positive. We Googled it on like Christmas day.

It was like, oh yeah, he did die a couple years ago. And we're like, oh, okay. And then six days later, it's like I had my own Mandela effect. I'm like, I swear. I was the one with the phone, but I swear somebody in my family told me he was already dead. No, everyone thought he was dead because he hadn't done anything for like 15 years so it's like yeah he's just out of the picture that's a bummer uh but anyway yeah cole got uh madden for christmas and my sister texted me and she's like hey do you think you would know how to play madden like if

we brought it like would you be able to play and i said my my exact text was please exclamation point if uh the day that cole beats me in madden is the day that I'll buy him a steak dinner. That's what I said. Maybe a little prime rib before the tractor pull. There you go. Exactly. I was like, I will be able to beat him for a long time at Madden. That's like my one game that I'm like pretty good at.

That's your video game. Yeah. That's so fun. If you had to go professional, like try to play in professional ranks in any video game, what would you choose? Good question. It's got to be something old that i would have a leg up on people yeah what would that be i think it'd be madden maybe some king griffey jr baseball on super nintendo um maybe slugfest i i did pretty well in slugfest back though you just never know because it like

the computer always lets the other team get back in it i just remember i've always played with the padres and they were rated a pretty bad team and they always do pretty well Yeah, Ryan Kolesko just bombing it with so maybe slugfest maybe SSX tricky just so I could play it a lot You know, it's a good excuse to play SSX tricky Tokyo Pipeline. Oh, dude. That was the best one Did you go with the guy with the big huge red like red hair a forge pants? Yeah, I like Moby Jones Or British or something.. I like Moby Jones. He's Australian or British or something. He always goes, Moby Jones. How's my boy?

Oh, good times. I learned something this week. Yeah? I was at Wawa down in Florida. I was getting a little late night hoagie. Underrated. Like me some Wawa. It was awesome.

Especially in COVID. You're not even underrated. We just don't know about it around here. People like it a lot. Yeah. But it was the only thing open and I was hungry. So it was an oasis for me. You're not even underrated. We just don't know about it around here. People like it a lot. Yeah. But it was the only thing open and I was hungry. So it was an oasis for me. You got a hoagie?

I got a hoagie. Yeah, baby. And I'm feeling good. I'm throwing different things on. I'm like, I'm so hungry. I want to throw a bunch of things on this. And I see, I get to like the dressings

and the sauces and I see everything seasoning. It's at the end of the list you know there's ranch there's ketchup there's mayo there's relish there's all this and then i see everything i'm like why in the world but i want everything in one seasoning like that is so gross that is disgusting realize that it was like the everything seasoning i have now learned that it is actually a really good everything bagel seasoning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fantastic. We have it at our house.

I would love some. It's called everything but the bagel. You get it from Trader Joe's. Oh, everything but the bagel. Yeah. I was calling it everything bagel. No, no, but it's like the everything seasoning without the bagel on it is what I'm saying. We have.

Everything but no bagel. Yeah. Seasoning. Oh, yeah. You're branching out, baby. Who knew? Yeah. PSA everyone out there.

Who knew spices are good on things? Yeah. Spices yeah spices make things better spices it up a little bit and if it says everything seasoning it's not a suicide like you're it's everything at the fountain drink it is it's its own seasoning mustard and ketchup and barbecue sauce that's gonna be so gross relish why would wawa have something called everything seasoning that's funny dude i learned something uh probably as elementary as that this week maybe Maybe even stupider. Well, the tractor pull thing, first of all. Well, we don't know. We don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure.

I learned that you can touch the outside of an oven and it's not hot. Oh, no. You had been avoiding the outside of the oven. When the oven was on, we were cooking pizza or something. I'd be like, Bo, get back. You're going to burn your hand. Get back from the oven was on we were like cooking like pizza or something i'd be like bo hey get back you're gonna burn your hand get back from the oven and there was one time where bo that would be so dangerous i know if the outside i thought i thought that i was like that's i don't like that bo that would be so scary right why ever cook anything in your oven if that's the case that's

with kids around i mean i i thought there was like thought it was like, let's say it's 350 degrees inside. I thought it was like 200 degrees outside. Still pretty hot. Yeah. Like I was like, wait, what? Heart rate check. That got my heart rate up, Brad. Everyone, it's 87 right now.

Yeah. I had never. Yeah. I was today years old, but I learned that. What a blessing though. Right. I could touch the oven now.

Oh, I've been touching it all the time. Like how's the pizza doing in there? Catherine wakes up in the middle of the night, you're just hugging it. Yeah. Putting your face up against it. I had no idea, dude. That's a good realization. Oh, I felt like an idiot. Because if the top, you know, it's like caution, hot top.

They say that. Hot top. It's hot top. So why don't they say it? Hotty toppy. Caution, hot front. I don't know. Something else that I got made fun of a lot for this past week is playing a little game

that's essentially like any kind of fishbowl catchphrase type game. It's just either. I live for those games. This is one called Poetry for Neanderthals. Okay. It's like catchphrase, but all of your clue-giving words have to be one syllable, so you kind of talk like. That's fun.

I think you're meant to talk like, uh, meat, red cow or whatever. I'm my version, which no one else adapted this, but I go, Ooh,

this hurts me when it's hot and it's like a B and it, ouch, sting me, you know, whatever it was. And anyway, I was doing some guessing and let's just say the, the right term was mac and cheese.

And I was certain it was noodles and queso. I kept yelling it. She's like, noodle. I was like, ooh, noodle. Noodles in. And she's like, you know, it's yellow. Noodles and queso. Noodles and queso.

You thought on the card was noodles and queso. Like, surely this game probably has noodles. Like, that's a thing. I said it four times. I was like, she's not hearing me. It's noodles and queso. Like, yeah, it's classic. Like, yeah, she's not hearing me. She can hear me. That is so frustrating. Noodles and queso. When you do say it and no one hears you. So you move on and you're like, I said that five minutes ago. Tom Cruise. No, that was the

last one. Oh yeah. Noodles and queso. That night we all went out to dinner and I wanted the lobster mac and cheese. So I ordered noodles and queso. People got a kick out of that. But yes, I've been made. I've been kind of a silly boy the last week. That's awesome. Silly young boy, silly Toys R Us young boy. Oh, I was like, what are you talking about? That's my rap name. Just someone else's copyright. Toys R Us. Toys R Us young boy. Toys R Us you're fine with. Well, I'll try to bring it back. Yeah. Oh man. Um, you want to talk about F12 a little bit? I mean, let's definitely talk about it this week later a lot but yeah what are you thinking uh well just fyi to the to the people out there we haven't like made this public

yet but we are oh we've decided to sell tickets for it yes so the biggest the biggest bait and switch in history baby free event book your flight free event gotcha psych it's ten dollars uh yeah basically the the venue only holds 150 people. And so rather than like being stressed the whole time of like, are we going to have too many people here? That would be the main stressor leading up to that night or even the day of. It would be like, how many people are going to be here? Like, is there space? Yeah.

And so this is a great idea that Brad had to alleviate the stress. Yeah. So my thought is we will sell 150 tickets. And then if we sell out of those 150 tickets, we will sell like a second show. We would do a second show, but so, so don't worry like that. You're not going to be able to go just, just get your ticket. So we know it's like an RSVP and you're going to help us alleviate some of the prices of actually charging us.

Yeah. So, uh, do this. So, so yeah. And if, if for whatever reason you can't afford $10, let us know. Yeah. We'll figure something out. If you're coming from Seattle, but you can't afford that extra 10 bucks, I understand. But yeah, we're going to charge some money for it.

And that's the main announcement I wanted to say was that we have our tickets on our website, ghostrunners.life. So check it out there. Oh, you already put the tickets up there? Yeah. Oh, thanks for doing that. Which is funny. Some people, like I never put any announcement. We've already got like seven people.

So some people are just like, I'm just going to go check out the website. They never talked about this, but I guess I'll buy a ticket now. Well, we had a lot of people be like, where can I get my tickets for this? We're like, you don't get tickets. Just show up. Yeah. And then I was like, that doesn't seem like a good idea. Just in case we were way more popular than we think we are.

No, I think it's a great idea. So we have a pretty good idea of how many people are coming. We can plan around that and get the right amount of seats. You know know there's just a lot that's gonna help to know exactly um yeah we haven't seen each other in like three weeks but i think we've each been individually thinking a lot of thoughts about the night and i'm excited you have a 35 minute set under your belt yeah i mean i can go i can make it 45 if you want to baby see i'm gonna have to write completely new stuff because i don't want people to you know who've come to a show to hear the same stuff again. So I'll try to write all new stuff.

We'll figure it out, what we want to do. Yeah. It's going to be fun. It's coming out. A little over a month when this comes out. Wow. Wow. Wow.

So F12 is going to be fun. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Buy our tickets. Ghostrunners.life. One other thing I want to talk about is, so this kind of comes from an office. After I had this thought, I was like, was like oh yeah this is in the office i think it's like women appreciation day where michael is just like he says something that you hear a lot growing up whether it be i think more typically in the christian subculture but like look women aren't supermodels all right

they don't look like the magazine covers or whatever right it was just i had a funny just realization even the hot ones aren't that thin is that what he says like that yeah it's just a funny thought that like i think we have almost like preached like look growing up you're gonna expect women to be beautiful get that out of your heads right now all right women aren't supermodels. Get, they're not tall. They're not skinny.

All right. Like you're used to seeing online or in magazines or the, even the, you know, even not even Victoria's secret supermodels, just hand models. They're not that great. So get it out of your heads. All right.

You'd like, that was like the, the teaching we got was like, was like this idea of like, yeah, just really, really lower your standards. Like, guys, it's like you see my wife, right? I mean, she was better 20 years ago, but not great. Well, look at yourself, first of all. You think you deserve a supermodel? No.

No. They don't exist. They don't exist. No one looks like that. Seriously, no one. I mean, not in theel? No. No. They don't exist. They don't exist. No one looks like that. No one. Seriously, no one. I mean, not in the Midwest. No.

No. I just like that. I heard that so much. It's like, you don't want to look at pornography because no one looks like that. Those aren't even real people you're seeing. Those are AI bots. Those are robots. That's not, it's truly made up.

Not a single woman is attractive. No, I've never met one so so i have a pure heart in mind because real women are ugly that's such a random thought i don't know why i had that thought it's just funny that is funny um so women don't look like supermodels uh how far are we in this episode let's see um one other kind of funny story that I think you'll appreciate. Isaac was telling me just like, he's giving me all these updates. He's met our neighbors. Oh, two? Did you end up going to that Christmas party?

No. Okay. I had other stuff going on that night. I don't know if Isaac and Harrison ended up making it over. But Isaac met one of the women who lives next door, or one of the women who lives close by to us. And he sent Harrison and I a voice memo yesterday. He's like, the old women always find me and they love me.

Cause Judy. Yeah. Judy's favorite was always Isaac. She would always call Isaac. Yeah. And I guess Pam is our new Judy. Okay. He said they talked about 30 minutes and a lot of it was about alcohol.

So stay tuned. Okay. This was the same woman who on the invitation list, it was like things that will be included in the party. Uh, beer, margaritas, spirits, cocktail. Like there was no like games, one who on the invitation list it was like things that will be included in the party uh beer margaritas spirits cocktail like there was no like games no activities no snacks just like different types of alcohol this is the same this she was hosting the party yeah i think it's the same woman okay the house over from that is a guy named roscoe that isaac i used to be in a chicken

and pickle pickleball league with we're like oh yeah we love roscoe yeah like right down the street two houses over as roscoe oh wow we learned that so it's hilarious okay anyway the story what a small world isaac and his friend were playing catch in my current backyard which is not very big and being the eight-year-olds they are this is the same friend i think scratched tv with him um the football went over the fence yes and they're like should we hop a fence that feels like a little kid thing to do let's let's go to the front of this other house not pam's and let's ask if we can go to the backyard so they knock cheryl answers the door and isaac's like introduced himself actually just moved to that house over there um he went from a plane catch and the ball went over your

fence i was wondering if i could get it and she's like yeah of course go back there grabs the ball he's walking back to the living room and i guess cheryl's like you know what we got all this room in the backyard do you want to play catch in my backyard and isaac is like sure and so isaac and briley just like have all this space and just played catch for like an hour in cheryl's backyard and isaac said cheryl watched them she was like this older woman who's just like so proud is this the woman like in the backpack like the large like yeah right there that's like three acres yeah and isaac's like dude it was awesome we got to run routes yeah and we had so much room cheryl watched us the whole time and she said come over whenever we want so i think we're gonna go over there again and play football again so that's amazing

yeah i heard he told me that story too and he said oh sorry uh no it's okay but like yeah there's a like she has a woodworking like shed oh yeah but she doesn't use it that much yeah it's like dude isaac's like this is perfect can you finagle your use it that much. Yeah. It's like, dude. Isaac's like, this is perfect. Can you finagle your way? Yeah. It's like a big barn kind of thing. Yeah. And I think it used to be a woodworker or something like that.

Yeah, it's weird. Your whole subdivision, it's like all these newer houses, 20 years or less probably. And then she's just been here way longer. They've just camped out on this land. They have a couple acres or something. Three acres and a pond. Oh, there's a pond back there? It's just in the middle of suburbia yeah which that which you feel bad for him yeah but also whenever they do decide to sell it that's gonna be worth so much just fine

yeah i agree so there's something funny though i like that yeah just a cute little story of isaac playing catch in cheryl's backyard well yeah isaac's already like getting the good graces with my aunt cindy you know two two streets down like yeah she's wanting him to move stuff for him and stuff like that and he's like yeah anytime you know so ike's he's a nice guy like that nice guy nice guy something that came from uh the shows oh i want to say shout out to matthew who came to the first minneapolis show he was like this i think 16 maybe 17 year old kid came to the show by himself waited around said hi to me was in ghost on his merch and i like, do you hear by yourself? And he was like, yeah, none of my family wanted to get a negative COVID test. So I just came by myself. I was like, dude,

that is so awesome. Like, thank you so much for being here and coming. I forgot about that. That was like three weeks ago. Matthew. So Matthew, big fan. I was at the show. Another thing that has been happening more and more recently is people asking me in person when they see me like so i know a while back you kind of were i think joking and you and brad were like if the chiefs don't make it to the super bowl we're going to shut on the podcast like is that true are you joking yeah most people have asked so i think i need to address it that's obviously a joke i would we would not what like no no no one this really fun thing two this like thing that's become like a side hustle for us and three just this thing that impacts so many people based off

of like a the performance of a sports team of course we're joking no speak for yourself brad is done yeah i will continue doing it yeah yeah so just needed to address that um i think that should be the new inside joke is like if this happens then we quit the podcast and there's always something like guys if you're if you're the praying type right you could use it man yeah because i mean if pete davidson doesn't get up back up on that stage by midnight we're done with this podcast if cheryl's name next door is spelled with a c we were in big trouble i i think it's it's time for us to quit it right there you know it's right then and there nba young boy boy ever becomes NBA old man, we're done. If John Mellencamp ever wins an Oscar, I'm going to be in a lot of trouble.

Yeah, we're done. It's over. So yeah, I needed to address that. That's really funny. It's funny. We'll write stuff for Jeans Shorts, and I'll always be like, I mean, surely people understand this. And you and Trey will be like let me truly people understand this and you and Trey I'll be like you'd be surprised you got a dumb a town for him like I got the end of one of our videos

We had but you know we had bow in one of those videos for the parenting thing Oh, yeah, and Jake was like it was really cool to have my son here, you know Whatever, which I guess that's a little bit more understandable if you don't know who we are But like but yeah so many times in the next few videos like wait jake's single i thought he had a kid would love to see jake's kids in more videos you know whatever yeah it's like oh no it's a joke oh that was brad that was brad's boy it's a joke so nba brad's boy nba brad's boy brad's boy brad's bow okay well first episode back i know we have a bunch more to talk about, but we'll probably record again here soon. So we'll leave some stuff for that.

Skip the voice memos today. Yes. Brad, what is your review of the week? Oh, let me pull it up. Let me tell you mine. Thank you. Izzy Zimmerman titled her review. This podcast changed the course of my life.

Izzy Zimmerman. OG. Fan of the Flames. She says, wow. changed the course of my life izzy zimmerman oh gee fan the flames she says wow never in my life did i think listening to two random strangers halfway across the country would actually change my life in any way yet here we are i started listening in 2020 and after my friends suggested i listened to them and hot dog and hot dog was that a good suggestion i ended up meeting jake at universal studios we both just happened to be in Florida at the same time. What a coincidence. And at the same time, I had no idea what I wanted to do as a career slash where I wanted to go after college.

Jake happened to randomly ask me if I was working at Cantercock that summer because I go to Liberty. A lot of Liberty people usually work at camp. And all the times I heard them mention their camp experiences, not once did I ever think, boy, I'd love to work there. Bummer. Okay. We need to do a better job of that. I, of course, told him no. But God had different plans

i couldn't get jake's question out of my head and god used it to push me to apply to camp very long story short i ended up working at candy cook in the summer of 2021 and it absolutely changed my life where am i at in the sentence through camp i have no no capital words here is he i'm having a little trouble all right again that is a that is a thing for whatever gen z i cannot tell when the sentence starts. It's amazing. Through camp, I have realized God wants me to have a career in ministry. All of the friends I made from camp were pushing me to Dallas after I graduate to hopefully

start a career in ministry. If it weren't for listening to this podcast, I don't think I ever would have considered working at Canicuck and I would have never met my camp friends and I would have never had a desire to move to Dallas. To say I'm thankful for this podcast is an understatement. Izzy. that's cool well said and thank you for sharing that with us that's cool and cool that we played a part in the course of your life yeah it's happy for you i think you made a good decision canada is awesome dallas is awesome i lived there bradwich is there you'll get recognized there people take pictures of you there. People take pictures of you there. People love, yeah, people love you there.

People love you there. Summer 21st, 2021, Brant Blodger wrote the review, perfect Christmas cookie. Let me tell you about it guys. Hey, Jake,

that was it. No, no, that was the, that was the title. Got it. Hey, Jake,

I wanted to tell you that I completely agree with you about those cookies with the Hershey kisses in the middle. The only thing that can make them better is using Rolo candies instead of Kisses. I disagree. The sweet caramel from the Rolo melts to the entire cookie, making it the best holiday dessert. Love the pod. Brant Blodgett.

Let me tell you guys real quick. His name is Brant Blodgett? Brant Blodgett. Brant Blodgett. Yeah, Brant Blodgett. Let me tell you, Brant Blodgett is one of so many people that whenever I brought up the whole Hershey Kisses crap cookie thing, everyone's like, yes, except for instead of a Hershey Kiss, do this.

Yes. Instead of a Hershey kiss, you use a Rolo or a Reese's or something. Yeah. That's why it makes it better because Hershey kisses was so bad about it. Okay. So all the people that are like, no, I like those. I just changed this one thing about it. That's not the same. It's like saying like, I didn't have a good time in, uh, you know, Los Angeles. Well, if you were there when it wasn't raining and you know, there wasn't as much smog and it wasn't shut down because of COVID,

you would have liked it. You would have loved it. Yeah. Yeah. I know. And the Lakers were in town. NBA young boy. When I was there.

Yeah. I didn't like it. If things were different, things would have changed. So many people like sent me other recipes that were similar. And I'm like, that's not the same. That is not what I was arguing. Oh yeah.

One of the best things was like, so I put it up on my story one time, like, are these good or are they trash? And like the first three or four people that commented were like Knack Baxter, um, Blake Kuhn, Chelsea, like all these people from Ohio. And then somebody responded back and they said, those things are so Ohio. And that's like a negative word. Like the word Ohio is like a bad thing to them. So it cracked me up. Like all these people that had commented were from Ohio. And then this person said, Oh, those things are so Ohio. And all those people that commented from Ohio said it was good. So anyway, that's funny. I've decided I'm going to really take that to

my grave that those things are not good. I tried to make them. I went to a store. You tried to make them? Yeah, I wanted to. And they were out of Hershey's Kisses. And I was like, I can only, this is pre-Christmas. I was like, I can only imagine the demand is so high for this exact recipe, Hershey's Kisses and sugar cookies, that they're out of Kisses.

I don't remember exactly what I said the first time, but of course, I'm not going to hate on like a ball of sugar. Like, yeah, it's still sugar. You'll be able to get it down. Yeah. But, but, but I'm not, I'm never choosing them. Never choose. There were other people who were like, I never thought about eating them the way Jake described him.

I'll try that out, which I don't even know what I said. I can't imagine being that novel of an idea. Took the tip off first or something. I don't know. Of course. Anyway, Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? I will. Would.

I wrote a little quick jingle for the New Year's. Brad Ellis is the writer of this one. What's the word? Milieu. That's what he says in the office. Ah, okay, Pete. All right. This is just a quick one.

A capella. Two words. That's right. Learned that a while ago. Maybe five years. Yeah, yeah. A coma. Sorry. What? Also two words a coma yeah yeah yeah right every time also two words not always really always everyone not always there you go all right can be i'm just kidding okay i'm I'll let you go. I'm all right. You remember that guy that lost his legs?

Thanks to our fans that listen to us every Monday morn and love that we tell about our lives and Brad's kids being born. We hope you'll join us on F12. It'll be a real great time. Hey, we'll enjoy an honorary McLean's Monday Hope you'll join us on F12. It'll be a real great time. Hey. We'll enjoy an honorary McLean's Monday for all lang syne. I measured my heart rate during it. 83.

Dang it. You got me going. Did I? Not bad. 87 is my new standard, though. That's going to be like the new thing. Like, dude, I'm laughing so hard. You got me to 94, bro.

I love the heart rate. Oh, that's not going to last long. Dude, hey, good jingle. Sorry. Good jingle. Great mix too. Yes. I also had the thought, this is the only jingle that's ever going to be available to be on YouTube.

Yeah. No copyright there unless you sang it too good. I doubt it. We're about to go open our gifts from people. Thank you in advance. Thank you in advance. For whatever you got us. They were clever. You guys get us Christmas gifts every year and we don't ask for it.

Unbelievable. And Kirstie, amidst a new job and a kid on the way, our third kid, arranged all these Christmas gifts to be gathered, to get all the money, to then ship them and everything. It's amazing. You guys are all amazing. Yeah. Thank you all.

And I hope you guys enjoyed the last week's episode. It's kind of weird not having a YouTube version of it. I got no feedback. I know. I was like, did they like it? I had the same feeling. Yeah. I have no idea what they liked.

I got so used to all the YouTube comments. I know. So missed it. But we're back, YouTube. We're back. I also forgot about the jingle that Heather Lee wrote from this perspective of my future wife. Oh, that was awesome. We listened to it. I was like, dang, I forgot how emotional this one is. That was really good. That's my favorite part. That was good. Heather Lee's awesome. Everyone's awesome. Everyone's awesome. I'm down boys, especially you're awesome. I love you guys. So good to see you. I miss you. Um, and NBA young boy. Hey, just keep

cranking out the hits, baby. Yes, that's what we've always said. That's what we've always said in this podcast. If NBA Youngboy doesn't keep cranking out the hits, we're done. We shut down the podcast. I take it back. I send it back.

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